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A phone, a notebook, and some spreadsheets: How Appleseed’s determined researcher tracks Alabama prison deaths, comforts grieving families and ensures their suffering is documented

By Eddie Burkhalter, Appleseed Researcher Anniston, AL -- There are days when I have to step away from the work as my phone rings with another desperate voice, a mother crying over a son who’s been killed or overdosed inside an Alabama…

After 33 years on parole, Bennie Haggins, 71, is granted a pardon

Alabama prisons, Home Page Updates, News

Mr. Haggins served a decade in prison for a $29 robbery and has paid more than $15,000 in parole supervision fees since his release in 1991. By Eddie Burkhalter, Appleseed Researcher MONTGOMERY, AL -- Bennie Haggins sat in a waiting area…

Learn, Connect, Advocate -- Appleseed’s Prison Reform Toolbox

Alabama prisons, Home Page Updates, News

A resource for Alabamians to learn about the human rights crisis in Alabama state prisons, share their knowledge with others, and work for change Since 2019, when the United States Department of Justice issued a 56-page report calling out unconstitutional…

Appleseed's Executive Director is inducted into Florence Walk of Honor

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By Carla Crowder, Appleseed Executive Director FLORENCE Ala., -- When I lived in Florence in the 1980s and 1990s, I was pretty average, at best. There was one thing I did well. I shot free throws, and for three years in a row I represented…

Appleseed welcomes UA legal extern Nicholas Thoma

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My name is Nicholas Thoma and I’m thrilled to be working with Alabama Appleseed this fall as a legal extern. I’m originally from Pennsylvania but have called Alabama home for the last five years since I came to the University of Alabama…

August at St. Clair prison: a supervisor arrested on drug trafficking charges, reports of guns, two suspected drug overdose deaths, and now a young man with asthma has died and his family has no answers.

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By Eddie Burkhalter, Appleseed Researcher The family of a 25-year-old man with just over a year left to serve on nonviolent property crimes believes he may have died from a severe asthma attack alone in a segregation cell at St. Clair prison,…

The State of Justice Blog

A phone, a notebook, and some spreadsheets: How Appleseed’s determined researcher tracks Alabama prison deaths, comforts grieving families and ensures their suffering is documented

After 33 years on parole, Bennie Haggins, 71, is granted a pardon

Learn, Connect, Advocate -- Appleseed’s Prison Reform Toolbox

Appleseed's Executive Director is inducted into Florence Walk of Honor

Appleseed welcomes UA legal extern Nicholas Thoma

August at St. Clair prison: a supervisor arrested on drug trafficking charges, reports of guns, two suspected drug overdose deaths, and now a young man with asthma has died and his family has no answers.

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